UTEP football head coach Dana Dimel, who is leading the Miners on a 5-1 start to the 2021 season, is the lowest-paid coach in all of Conference USA, according to USA Today.
UTEP officials and head coaches of four fall sports met with the media on Thursday afternoon at the brand new Sky Lounge in the Sun Bowl to address their respective upcoming seasons.
As most sports venues have started to lay out their plans to have fans back inside arenas, UTEP athletics announced their plans to have 100 percent capacity at all home sporting events this 2021-22 athletics season.
As part of the Conference USA television schedule reveal, UTEP football officially released its own broadcast schedule that features all but one game on the national television radar.
The UTEP football and softball programs are facing Level II-standard penalties, according to an agreement that was sent by the Division I Committee on Infractions on Tuesday morning.
The program announced they would push their home series against Charlotte to Saturday and Sunday, instead of their originally scheduled Friday-Saturday games.
Following a series sweep at UAB, the Miners will hope to bounce back and get some confidence as they host the bottom team in the C-USA East Division in Florida International.
Budget cuts have rocked the college athletics world due to the COVID-19 pandemic, thus prompting furloughs and salary cuts across the country. Football coach Dana Dimel and men's basketball coach Rodney Terry—UTEP's highest-paid coaches—took a combined $271,000 salary reduction, reported ABC-7...